Tools and resources

Coolfood Pledge brochure for health care

• Food
• Climate and Health

This brochure, designed for the health care audience, shows how facilities can use the Coolfood Pledge to provide diners more of what they want while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. The Coolfood Pledge is a tool that will help you increase delicious plant-centered offerings that will appeal to wide audiences, track your impact, and celebrate your successes. Participating hospitals…

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Data integrity calls

• Awards

A quality data set is key to a strong Practice Greenhealth Award application. Listen to archived calls reviewing data submission for key content areas. If you have questions, reach out to your member engagement manager or the awards hotline - 888-378-2259.  

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2020 Awards winners list

List of this year's Environmental Excellence Award winners.

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Sustainable procurement directory

• Sustainable procurement

This resource provides Practice Greenhealth members with guidance on more than 120 products and services health care organizations can target for sustainable procurement.  Medical products Non-medical products Services

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Awards promotion

• Awards

Congratulations on winning a Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Award and on your organization’s exemplary environmental stewardship. In recognition of your dedication to environmental excellence and to help spread the word of this honor, starting on May 20, Practice Greenhealth plans to:  Announce all award winners on the Practice Greenhealth website. Issue a press release about…

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Environmental Excellence Awards sample news items

• Awards

Here are two sample news stories as well as a brief description for each of Practice Greenhealth’s Environmental Excellence Awards. Feel free to use some or all of this content as you promote your win internally and externally. You can find additional resources, including award logos, on our website. If you have questions, please reach out to press@practicegreenhealth.org. Sample news story 1…

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Environmental Excellence Awards staff email template

• Awards

To save you time, we drafted this customizable email to recognize your team: Hello, [insert team member name here]. Thank you for taking the time to gather data and contribute to our Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Award application. Our facility won [insert award(s) names here] this year, and we couldn’t have done it without you. We are grateful for all you do to help us on our…

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How-to guide for Healthy Carpet

• Chemicals
• Guide
• Healthy interiors
• Healthy Carpet

The Healthy Carpet how-to guide assists hospitals in achieving the Healthy Carpet goal, which targets the elimination of chemicals and materials in carpet that can contribute to a wide range of negative health effects, including asthma, cancer, and developmental impacts, as well as environmental impacts.

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Healthy carpet criteria and manufacturer guidance

• Chemicals
• Guide
• Healthy interiors
• Healthy Carpet

These documents provide guidance for manufacturers wishing to meet Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Carpet criteria. The criteria apply to carpet tile, broadloom carpet, and carpet padding. The criteria do not apply to area rugs and outdoor carpet and rugs. Manufacturers interested in developing a list of their products that meet the Healthy Carpet criteria should visit Greenhealth Approved.

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2018 sustainability data

Practice Greenhealth’s data, collected from hospitals across the country, will assist hospitals in identifying key sustainability program opportunities by benchmarking their own program’s performance. The data is divided into 10 components of health care environmental stewardship programs: leadership, waste, chemicals, greening the operating room, food, environmentally preferable purchasing,…

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